Summer 2025 Updates

Campers and families are invited to attend a Pre-camp Zoom meeting with Kat and Sarah, on Sunday, May 18 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm (central time). Prior registration is not required, just click the meeting link. If you cannot attend in person, the recording will be made available after the meeting.

We are thrilled to have some big updates for our End-of-Camp events for Summer 2025.  We have moved around the schedule so that all of our events are the day before campers leave which hopefully makes it easier for families to attend.  

1st Session Family Day: Wednesday, July 9th

2nd Session Family Day: Wednesday, August 6th.  

Family Day Schedule

Horse Show: 11:00 am

*Lunch will be for campers and staff only.  

Water Show: 3:30 pm

Tennis Tournament Finals: 4:30 pm

Family Cookout: 5:30 pm (RSVP to follow)

Camp Play: 7:00 pm 

• We ask that visitors be limited to family members only.  And while we know your campers will be very excited to see their dog, we ask that furry family members stay home.  
• Between the hours of 3:30 and 5:30, campers have the option to take their families to see their cabin or other favorite spots in camp but must first check-in with their counselor so that we know all campers are supervised.  
• We will ask for families who are planning to attend the Family Cookout to RSVP during camp so that we can make sure we have enough food for everyone.  

*A Note for our Seven-Weeker families: If you would like to spend more time with your camper, we would recommend either Friday, July 11 or Saturday, July 12.  Families are welcome to take their camper out of camp on these days for the morning or afternoon.  We ask that you arrange the visit with camp leadership in advance.  

CAMPER MEDICATION POLICY:
Any prescription medications or regularly-administered OTC medication must be called into the local camp pharmacy by your doctor in order for campers to receive medication during camp.  The Health Care Team would like to point out the process for ALL prescription medication and MANY non-prescription medications for your camper (a detailed description is in the 2025 Family Handbook, page 6):
● Your doctor sends the prescription(s) to Trig’s pharmacy in Minocqua: 715-356-9449
● You provide Trig’s pharmacy with your insurance and payment information.
● Trig’s Pharmacy packages your camper’s medication(s) for a nominal cost.
● Clearwater staff picks up the pill packets before arrival day.

The only exception to this requirement is if dispensing guidelines for a particular prescription require your camper to bring that medication with them to camp. In that case, please contact the health care team prior to camp arrival at healthcareteam@clearwatercamp.orgWe appreciate the time you’ve already dedicated to answering the questions on camp’s application focused on each camper’s physical, mental, emotional, and social health – knowing this information allows us to better support your camper this summer.  Please feel free to reach out to either our health or wellness teams if you have any changes to report or updates to share: healthcareteam@clearwatercamp.org or wellnessteam@clearwatercamp.org.

Required Forms
We know we ask you to submit a lot of forms!  While we have tried to consolidate our requests for information as much as possible, we recognize there are lots of forms and we send multiple emails and many reminders.   Keep in mind all of these requests for information are so that we can best support your camper.  Please make an effort to get your forms submitted as you complete them; the more time we have to review your responses, the better prepared we will be (and the fewer reminders you’ll get from us)!

The health and wellness team relies on having access to all information contained in the following required forms:

• Health History
• Physician’s Examination
• Immunization
• Permission to Treat
• Insurance Card
• Consent for Medical Testing

To find your forms: Login to your CampMinder account and click on Forms and Documents. Review and complete any forms listed as “pending” or “incomplete”. Please contact Christy if you have trouble with any forms: christy@clearwatercamp.org or (715) 356-5030.

Vitamins and Supplements 
Campers may not take vitamins and supplements (gummy or otherwise) while at camp. Exceptions would be supplements due to a diagnosed deficiency prescribed by a healthcare provider and filled by the Trig’s pharmacy in a pill packet (e.g., iron, vitamin D, potassium, or magnesium).

Communicable Disease Updates
The health and safety of our campers and staff are a top priority.  Although the COVID pandemic may be behind us, we will continue to monitor for COVID and other communicable illnesses.

The major key to success in keeping communicable illnesses out of camp is to work together to do everything we can to make sure everyone arrives at camp healthy. Please contact camp’s healthcare team for guidance if your camper experiences a fever of 100.4 or higher or has symptoms of illness (fever, chills, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, etc) during this time.

During camp, we will not be testing for COVID or other illnesses unless requested by a camper or counselor. We ask everyone to fill out the permission to test form in the case of emergency care (blood glucose testing) or personal request for testing. If any communicable diseases are discovered while at camp, the healthcare team will work with campers and staff to mitigate spread of illness and communicate with camp leaders to get the necessary information out to families as needed.

Fight the Bite
We are excited to announce that Clearwater has been selected by the Alliance for Camp Health (ACH) to participate in “Fight the Bite” U.S. Tick-Borne + Lyme Disease Initiative. With the generous support of a $153k Grant from SC Johnson, this initiative will extend the reach of Lyme Disease and tick prevention through research, educating for prevention of tick bites, and creating TickWise spaces.

In the first year of the initiative, ACH will work with ten camps in Wisconsin to educate more than three thousand staff in the provision of care, benefiting upwards of 16,000 children. The research obtained and education materials created in the first year of this initiative will be developed in collaboration with medical providers who have an interest and specialization in vector-borne conditions.

As a participant in the initiative, we will share educational resources regarding tick prevention with our camper families and staff as we get closer to summer.  Then, during camp, we will be collecting and submitting anonymous data to the Alliance for Camp Health regarding prevention activities, tick encounters, tick bites, post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), and subsequent treatment if provided.

Our summer team is key to making Clearwater a great experience for our campers!  You can learn more about them when we finalize hiring in the Spring.